Many studies in recent years have documented the decline of the Canadian Forces (CF). This publication addresses one of the ways by which the CF can be rebuilt: by acquiring what military planners call strategic lift. Because Canada is isolated by wide oceans from most of the trouble spots of the world and because Canada has no overseas bases, if the CF are to be deployed abroad, whether to fight wars or to engage in humanitarian actions, they must be sent there from home soil.

The numbers of people and amounts of money involved in the Gomery inquiry are larger than previously known.

Provincial governments in Canada have special, publicly funded, programs that reimburse seniors for their spending on prescription drugs. The United States recently passed federal legislation, the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (MMA 2003), which grants universal eligibility to seniors for public funding of prescription drugs. This study argues that the age-based universal entitlement provided by seniors' drug-benefit programs is unnecessary and inefficient relative to more limited policy options, and is unfair to the rest of the population.